page_title: Proto-Malay
section_title: The Philippines
hierarchical_section_title: Proto-Malay / Geographical regions / The Philippines
caption_attribution_description: English: Identifier: nature7319051906lock Title: Nature Year: 1869 (1860s) Authors: Lockyer, Norman, Sir, 1836-1920. edt Subjects:Science Science Sciences Biologie Physique Natuurwetenschappen CIENCIA NATURAL HISTORY BIOLOGY SCIENCE Publisher: London, etc., Macmillan Journals Ltd., etc. Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: go, .ire amixture of Indonesians and Proto-Malays; a few aredistinctly narrow-headed, about three times as manyare broad-headed, .and somewhat, less than two-thirdsate intermediate. The average stature of the menis 5 feet 4; inches; the women average nearly 7 inchesshorter. There is no tr.no of Negrito blood. The 1 The Bontoc Igorot. Bv Alhert Ernest Jenks. Department of theInterior. Ethnological Survey Publications, vol. i. (Manila, 1005.) Negritos of Zamabales By William Allan Reed. Ibid., vol. ii.,part i. (Manila, 1Q04.) The Nabaloi Dialect. By Otto Scbeerer. Ibid., vol. ii., parts ii., iii.(Manila, ,905.) The Bataks of Palawan. By Edward V. Miller. (Bureau of PublicPrinting.) NO J 903. VOL. 73] April 19, 1906] NATURE 58; settlement of Bontoc is divided into thirteen wardsor political divisions, called ato&#160;; each has its separategoverning council, which can declare war or makepeace. Each ato contains three kinds of buildings&#160;:—(1) public edifices, fawi and pabafituan, for men and Text Appearing After Image: boys; (2) similar houses, ola, for girls and youngwomen before their permanent marriage; and (3)private houses, afong, for families and widows. Thepabafunan is the home of the various ato ceremonies,and is sacred to the male sex; it is the mens club bvday and the unmarried mens dormitory; the fawi isthe council house, and as such is frequented mainlyby old men&#160;; it is also the skull-house. Dr. Jenksadds a note on the distribution of similar club-housesin Eastern Asia and in Oceania. The olag is thedormitory of the girls from the age of two years untilthey marry, and where they receive their lovers. Theafong is the only primitive dwelling in the Philip-pines which is built on the ground, but it contains asmall upper storey, and often an attic over this; thesean- used as store-rooms for cereals. The clothes,ornaments, tattooing utensils, weapons, and the likeare described and figured. Of great interest are theaccounts of the ordinary domestic operations, especiallythose connected with t Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
context_page_description: The term Proto-Malay, which translates to Melayu Asli or Melayu Purba or Melayu Tua, refers to Austronesian speakers, possibly from mainland Asia, who moved to the Malay peninsula and Malay archipelago in a long series of migrations between 2500 and 1500 BC, and in one model the first of two migrations of early Malay speakers, before that of the Deutero-Malays. The Proto-Malays are the ancestors of the Malays in the modern Malaysia and Indonesia.
  The Proto-Malays are believed to be seafarers knowledgeable in oceanography and possessing advanced fishing as well as basic agricultural skills. Over the years, they settled in various places and adopted various customs and religions as a result of acculturation and inter-marriage with most of the people they come in contact with Orang Asli tribes such as the Semang and Senoi peoples.
context_section_description: In the Philippines, there are several people groups that have been identified as part of the Proto-Malay group:
  Mangyan people
  Mangguangan people
  While there are other ethnic groups in the Philippines, that are in some ways related or shares a mixture of Proto-Malay, namely:
  Teduray people, mainly a mixture of Proto-Malay and Native Indonesians
  Apayao people, a mixture of Proto-Malay and Negrito
  Zambale people, mainly Negrito with a mixture of Proto-Malay, Australoid and or Ainu
  Albay Bikol people, mainly Proto-Malay with some mixture of Negrito
  Batak people (Philippines), a mixture of Proto-Malay and Native Indonesians
  Bataan people, mainly Negrito with a mixture of Proto-Malay, Australoid and or Ainu
  Bagobo people, a mixture of Proto-Malay and Native Indonesians
  Blaan people, a mixture of Proto-Malay and Native Indonesians
  Manobo people, a mixture of Proto-Malay and Native Indonesians
  Subanon people, mainly Proto-Malay with a mixture of either Malay people (coastal) or Native Indonesians (interior)
  Ifugao people, a mixture of Proto-Malay and Malay people
  Tinggian people, a mixture of Native Indonesians and Malay people
  Bontoc people, mainly Malay people
caption: A comparison of height with an American (left), a mixed blood of Native Indonesians and Proto-Malay (middle) and a pure Negrito (right) from Northern Luzon, 1869.
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